Measuring device.



No, 897,458.. PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1908.

0. E. DIGKESON.

MEASURING DEVICE.

AEPLIOATION FILED JAN. 28,1908.

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ORRIN E. DIOKESON, OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA.

MEASURING DE VICE.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ORRIN E. DIOKESON, citizen of the United States,residing at Oskaloosa, in the county of Mahaska and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Measuring De vices, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements inmeasuring cups or receptacles, and the invention has for its object asimple, and ei'licient construction of adjustable measuring device forcomminuted, granular, or pulverulent substances, such as coffee, smallgrains or the like, and the illvention consists in certainconstructions, and arrangements of the parts that I shall hereinafterfully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to thefollowing de scription and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved measuring device; Fig. 2is a central vertical sectional view thereof and, Fig. 3 is a horizontalsectional view, the section being taken just above the slide.

Correspondingand like parts are referred to in the following descriptionand indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same referencecharacters.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the body portion ofmy improved measuring receptacle, which is cylindrical, as shown, andwhich is formed with a preferably permanent bottom, 2. The body portion1 is formed with a series of superposed slots 3 which are spaced in apredetermined manner. according to the number and size of the measuringcompartments which may be of any desired number, and which are formed bya slide 4 which constitutes an adjustable closure or lid for thereceptacle, and which is provided with an apertured ear 5by which it isretained upon a guide rod 6 and is mounted to swing and slide thereupon.The slots 3 preferably extend throughout one-half of the body portion 1as shown and the guide rod 6 is soldered. or otherwise secured at itsangularly disposed upper and. lower ends to the body portion above theuppermost slot andv below the lowermost slot, as shown.

7 designates a nib or projection which is formed on the disk-like slideor closure 4, preferably at about ninety degrees from the Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed January 28, 1908. Serial No. 413,117.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908 apertured ear 5, said nib constituting a fingerpiece by which the slide may be swung into and out of the differentslots 3.

In the practical operation of my improved measuring receptacle, the sameis dipped into the pulverulent or granular substance that it is designedto measure, with the slide 4 in an outwardly swung position, retained onthe lower end of the guide rod 6. The slide is then moved upwardly onthe guide .rod and entered into any one of the slots 3 according to themeasure desired, so as to form a closed top for the receptacle and toretain between the same and the bottom 2 the desired quantity of thesubstance to be measured. \Vith the slide in this position, thereceptacle is inverted so as to pour outthe substances above the slide,the remainder being retained in the receptacle, and the proper quantitythereby measured. In the present instance, for the purposes ofillustration, I have shown my improved measuring device as designed formeasuring coffee to make, say, two cups, four cups, six cups, or eightcups, as desired, but it is manifest that the device is not limited tothis use, but is equally applicable for use generally for anypulverulent or comminuted substance. By mounting the slide 4 upon theguide rod 6, it will always be at hand and may be readily adjusted upand down and as readily entered into and removed from the proper slot 3,according to the desired measureor quantity of the substances.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, it will be seen that I have provided a very simple andefficient construction of measuring receptacle that may be cheaplymanufactured and easily manipulated for the desired purose.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, the herein described measuringreceptacle comprising a body portion formed with a series of slots oneabove the other, a vertically disposed guide rod formed with angularlydisposed ends connected to the outer side of the body portion, a closedbottom secured to the body portion, and a slide formed with an aperturedear by which it is mounted to swing an d slide up and down on the said.rod, the said slide being arranged to be entered in any one of the slotsin the body portion.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the herein described measuringreceptacle, comprising a body portion having a closed bottom and formedwith a series of slots one above the other, a vertically disposed guiderod connected to the body portion, and a disk mounted upon said rod andarranged to slide longitudinally and turn thereon and arranged to enterany one o'l the slots whereby l to form a closure for the receptacleabove the 10 closed bottom.

In testimony whereof I a'lfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ORRIN E. DICKESONV [L. s.]

WVi tnesses LENA L; ROWE, JOHN F. LAGEY.

